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M.Voss: Up to a point I do enjoy all that brainstorming that passes nowadays as
NABOKV-L, but time and again I wish participants in that brainstorming would post
fewer contributions and instead do some research before confronting the
sorely tested public of this list with their jeux d'esprit.
Jansy: M. Voss called our attention to some kind of "imposture". He suggests there must be a Platonic Nabokov-L lying somewhere outside time and space. Why not apply the virtual thunderbolts of Zeus over his own virtual realm and press more often the "delete" button instead of toppling Babel?
It seems that we, poor human beings affected by language, would turn into a heap of ashes just by looking at such grandeur. I hope our EDs can keep baby Dionysus safe from the strictures of the academe ( there's enough earthly space for all of us) so that we can blunder bt. Erewhon and Anti-terra, where instead of no we find here and now.
By the way ( oops?), checking in my fast manner, I read that Samuel Butler called "Mesopotamia" his far, far away plot of land. I wonder if Boutteilan and Bottle had ever worked for him, too.
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NABOKV-L, but time and again I wish participants in that brainstorming would post
fewer contributions and instead do some research before confronting the
sorely tested public of this list with their jeux d'esprit.
Jansy: M. Voss called our attention to some kind of "imposture". He suggests there must be a Platonic Nabokov-L lying somewhere outside time and space. Why not apply the virtual thunderbolts of Zeus over his own virtual realm and press more often the "delete" button instead of toppling Babel?
It seems that we, poor human beings affected by language, would turn into a heap of ashes just by looking at such grandeur. I hope our EDs can keep baby Dionysus safe from the strictures of the academe ( there's enough earthly space for all of us) so that we can blunder bt. Erewhon and Anti-terra, where instead of no we find here and now.
By the way ( oops?), checking in my fast manner, I read that Samuel Butler called "Mesopotamia" his far, far away plot of land. I wonder if Boutteilan and Bottle had ever worked for him, too.
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